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Sinn Féin up and running for General Election

Welcoming the dissolution of the Dáil and the announcement that the General
Election will be held on May 24th Sinn Féin Dáil leader Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin
TD said Sinn Fein was already “up and running and on course to return a
greatly strengthened team of TDs with the aim of implementing our policies
in Government”.

Deputy Ó Caoláin said:

“The long overdue dissolution of the Dáil is very welcome.

“Sinn Féin has been on an election footing for many months in all the
constituencies and well before the start of the year our canvassers have
been reporting very positive responses on the doorsteps. We are standing 41
candidates in 40 of the 43 constituencies and in every case we are fighting
to win.

“During the coming weeks of the election campaign we will reap the rewards
of years of hard work and commitment by our candidates and party activists.
In doing so we are seeking endorsement from the people for our radical and
relevant policies.

“Real change and equality for all the Irish people is Sinn Féin’s election
focus.

“We are campaigning for premium public services in health, housing,
education, transport and childcare to be available to all on the basis of
need.

“We are campaigning for the peace process and the all-Ireland agenda to be
advanced across Ireland with a new Government in Dublin linking up with a
new Executive in Belfast for the benefit of all who share this island.

“We are campaigning against the bankrupt policies of the outgoing Fianna
Fáil/PD Government which has failed abysmally over the past decade to use
unprecedented economic prosperity to create a more equitable society.
Instead they have widened the gap between the very wealthy and the rest.
Their privatisation agenda is damaging public services, above all in our
health system.

“We are standing on the record of our five TDs who have provided effective
leadership and representation nationally and in their constituencies. They
have presented the Sinn Féin alternative to the jaded and discredited
policies of the Fianna Fáil/PD Coalition. They have exposed the
contradictions within and between the so-called main opposition parties of
Fine Gael and Labour – the Coalition of the Confused.

“Sinn Féin is offering voters a real choice in this General Election.

“We are presenting our vision of an Ireland of Equals.

“We are setting out our ideas for a prosperous country in which wealth is
shared and where the promise of equal rights and equal opportunities is
fulfilled for each and every person who lives on our island.

“We are affirming our republican commitment and presenting our strategy to
achieve a United Ireland of Equals.” ENDS